Books: What have you been reading?

[Old Man Ollie 1962]

A Long Time Dead: A Mike Hammer Casebook - Mickey Spillane/Max Allan Collins

[The Darknight Detective]

A Long Time Dead: A Mike Hammer Casebook - Mickey Spillane/Max Allan Collins

Never read any of the books, but I believe I have seen all of the movies and television shows over the years.

[Old Man Ollie 1962]

Never read any of the books, but I believe I have seen all of the movies and television shows over the years.

Good old fashioned hard boiled detective mystery and adventure. I've read most of Spillane's books. Before he passed away in 2006, he collaborated with Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition) on several projects. Spillane's early novels aren't, um, exactly PC. He was a man of his times. I understand he became a Jehovah's Witness later in life and many of his views changed.

[The Darknight Detective]

Rereading the third book of the Books of Blood series by Clive Barker, but this time on my Kindle (can't recall If I owned it originally as a paperback or borrowed it from the public library at some point).

[The Darknight Detective]

Good old fashioned hard boiled detective mystery and adventure. I've read most of Spillane's books. Before he passed away in 2006, he collaborated with Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition) on several projects. Spillane's early novels aren't, um, exactly PC. He was a man of his times. I understand he became a Jehovah's Witness later in life and many of his views changed.

I can usually handle the un-PC stuff, Ollie. Unless it's really egregious (for example, I haven't been able to make it through Birth of a Nation from beginning to end yet), I have no problem placing a story in its proper context.

[Malvolio]

The Winter of Our Disconnect by Susan Maushart

It's a true story of a mother of three teenagers who got them to live without the internet for six months.

[Vegan Daddy]

I just finished The Confidence Man by Herman Melville.

I'm gonna re-read Suttree by Cormac McCarthy this weekend.

[Ragdoll]

book 3 of Malazan, still confusing as hell but I'm finally starting to get my head around the complex world it takes place in and all the people living in it.

book 2 of Locke Lamora. Not as good as book 1, had some lazy writing, boring parts, and a stupid attempt at a twist with the lame flash-forward prologue. Had a heavy ending but I have a feeling they'll just BS their way out of it in book 3.

Wolf's Hour by Robert McCammon. Cool WWII historical espionage thriller with werewolves.

Now reading The Doll Who Ate His Own Mother by Ramsay Campbell.

[The Darknight Detective]

book 3 of Malazan, still confusing as hell but I'm finally starting to get my head around the complex world it takes place in and all the people living in it.

book 2 of Locke Lamora. Not as good as book 1, had some lazy writing, boring parts, and a stupid attempt at a twist with the lame flash-forward prologue. Had a heavy ending but I have a feeling they'll just BS their way out of it in book 3.

Wolf's Hour by Robert McCammon. Cool WWII historical espionage thriller with werewolves.

Now reading The Doll Who Ate His Own Mother by Ramsay Campbell.

I enjoyed Wolf's Hour when I first read it back in the '80s - my favorite monster and war together in one book! As for Ramsey Campbell, the only book of his I have read so far is The Parasite and that was terrific.

[Deathstroke]

I finished reading the Ace Atkins thriller The Fallen yesterday!

[Photon Torme]

Recently finished Heart Shaped Box and Horns by Joe Hill. Currently reading Dave Barry's Tricky Business which reads a whole lot like a Carl Hiassen. Maybe a smidge more goofiness.

[The Darknight Detective]

I began Appaloosa by Robert B. Parker today.

[Malvolio]

Recently finished Heart Shaped Box and Horns by Joe Hill. Currently reading Dave Barry's Tricky Business which reads a whole lot like a Carl Hiassen. Maybe a smidge more goofiness.

Haven't read Horns yet, but I did enjoy Heart Shaped Box.

[The Darknight Detective]

Today I tackle To Marry Medusa by Theodore Sturgeon and, on my Kindle, The Adventures of Captain Bonneville by Washington Irving.

[Ragdoll]

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Years Best Hardcore Horror, by Various.

Very radically different books. Both had very descriptive prose.